Lewis Stockwell

I have a broad portfolio of teaching within the area of Education Studies and Early Childhood Education. My main areas are tightly connected to philosophy of education and social justice. I draw on the disciplines of philosophy of education (which I teach in the first and final years of the Education Studies degree, including supervision of PoE Dissertations) Sociology of Education (mainly in the areas of international education and citizenship) and History of Education (which is taught in the first two years of the degree). 

I  also engaged in the wide portfolio of modules and teaching in the school:

• Personal and Professional Development (leader) (skills module and introduction to educational psychology)

• Philosophies that shape education (leader)

• Education: Perspectives over time (tutor)

• Education: International perspectives (leader)

• Research project (tutor)

• Dissertation (tutor – leading on specialist Philosophy of Education dissertation strand)

• Citizenship, Morals and Values in Education (leader)

• Thinking Skills (tutor)

• Global perspectives on childhood (leader)

• MA Education (China – Scholars programme) Practice-based research supervision

My current research critiques the idea of the university as a private enterprise and highlights the impact of neoliberalism of student and staff practices. This research contributes to the current debate concerning the nature of education, more generally, in England and the West and highlights how theory and practices impact on the day-to-day lives of academics and students. My research interests marry with my teaching interests and include, but are not limited to:

• higher education as a public good
• higher education and citizenship formation
• academics and students as public intellectuals
• marginalisation, alienation and engagement of students and academics in a neoliberal age
• philosophical analyses of partnership in higher education policy and practice
• morality and ethics, particularly virtue, in learning, professional development and academic practice/identity